microsoft
Steve Atkins: Short TTLs Causing Delivery Issues?
Some senders are reporting inconsistent, hard-to-pin-down authenticated-related delivery failures when sending to Microsoft domains. Here...
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cool tools
Steve Atkins: Running Swaks on Macs
Swaks has long been my favorite quick and dirty tool for poking at mail servers. It's powerful, flexible, scriptable, and it doesn't...
bounces
Use this one weird trick to ensure full domain alignment in SFMC
Here's a tip that I think Salesforce Marketing Cloud users will find useful, especially in the context of the new Yahoo and Google sende...
cool tools
Aboutmy.email is the cool new tool you need to check your email headers (and more)
Steve Atkins from Word to the Wise just released a very cool new tool called Aboutmy.Email. Bookmark it now ! What do you do with it? Go to...
ios17
Link roundup: Apple iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma link filtering
Here, find quick links to everything I can find relating to the upcoming Apple privacy changes. Remember what we learned from MPP -- meaning...
apple
iOS17 filtering click tracking links
When I recently mentioned that new Apple privacy changes were coming in iOS17 , it was nigh impossible to share exactly what was coming, as ...
bounces
Yahoo problems? Could be SOA record issues in DNS
Are you seeing this bounce message when trying to send mail to Yahoo subscribers? 451 Message temporarily deferred due to unresolvable RFC.5...
authentication
Microsoft breaks DKIM signature?
It's kind of rare, but not rare enough. Every now and then I hear of a client who is seeing intermittent DKIM failures at Microsoft Outl...
authentication
How to Optimize Your SPF Record
Steve Atkins of Word to the Wise just released a cool new tool: SPF Minimizer . Over on the Word to the Wise blog, he explains how it works ...
ask al
⛄ Put a snowman in your subject line ⛄
I'm not going to lie; I think it's a bit silly. But, I get asked about this pretty darn regularly: How can I put symbols in my subje...
email security
The Current State of TLS over SMTP?
Michael Adkins, Mail Integrity Engineer at Facebook summarizes it thusly : "STARTTLS encryption is widely supported and has achieved cr...
history
A bit of spam history
Steve Atkins of Word to the Wise has posted a very interesting story , detailing a little bit of spam history from just over ten years ago. ...
dnsbl
The view from a blacklist operator
Steve Atkins from Word to the Wise explains why it's so important to make sure you're querying a blacklist correctly. Get it wrong...
annalivia ford
WHOIS Privacy Protect -- What Spamfighters Think
As others have mentioned, a recent court ruling suggests that when accompanied with " intentional spamming ," hiding who owns a d...
abuse mailbox
Abuse Mailbox on Google Apps?
So, if you're like me, and you host email for your domain using Google Apps, you might be wondering how to read mail sent to abuse or po...